Re: [PATCH] reset: hi6220: Use the correct HiSilicon copyright

[fanghao (A)]

On 2021/5/12 14:19, Philipp Zabel wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-03-30 at 14:50 +0800, Hao Fang wrote:
> > s/Hisilicon/HiSilicon/g.
> > It should use capital S, according to
> > https://www.hisilicon.com/en/terms-of-use.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Hao Fang <fanghao11@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/reset/hisilicon/hi6220_reset.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/reset/hisilicon/hi6220_reset.c b/drivers/reset/hisilicon/hi6220_reset.c
> > index 1992650..5ca145b 100644
> > --- a/drivers/reset/hisilicon/hi6220_reset.c
> > +++ b/drivers/reset/hisilicon/hi6220_reset.c
> > @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
> >   * Hisilicon Hi6220 reset controller driver
>
> Why leave this "Hisilicon" alone?

HiSilicon has applied for two trademarks Hisilicon/HiSilicon, so I think this one is OK. But there is only one English name for the company,
We have consulted with company's lawyer who suggested that should use a copyright statement consistent with the official website.

> >   *
> >   * Copyright (c) 2016 Linaro Limited.
> > - * Copyright (c) 2015-2016 Hisilicon Limited.
> > + * Copyright (c) 2015-2016 HiSilicon Limited.
> >   *
> >   * Author: Feng Chen <puck.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >   */
>
> That will be a lot of churn:
>
>   git grep Copyright.*Hisilicon | wc -l
>   141
>
>   git grep Hisilicon | wc -l
>   371

As mentioned above, I am focused on correcting the copyright.
5.13-rc1 has been released and I will continue to clean the rest by make one patch per subsystem.

Should I resend this based on 5.13-rc1?

> Could I get an Acked-by from someone at HiSilicon for this?

Maybe I could remind the author.

> regards
> Philipp
>
> .

Thank,
Hao